Posted on 03/17/2015 7:33:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Tough day, sport — despite your colleagues’ best efforts:
Tightness of exits in Israel suggests Bibi's shameful 11th hour demagoguery may have swayed enough votes to save him. But at what cost?
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) March 17, 2015
First Twitter response: “You mad bro?” Yup. Keep in mind that this lamenter of demagoguery is the same guy who ran a campaign that accused Mitt Romney of giving a woman cancer, blessing scurrilous charges of tax evasion, and darkly warning Ohio voters that Obama’s opponent wasn’t “one of us.” You’d think he’d respect a ruthless, win-at-all-costs (successful) strategy. Instead, he’s moaning about tactics and civility. Heal thyself, Axe. As for Lefties’ rapidly-congealing narrative that Bibi’s upset victory was the product of last-minute ugliness, read Commentary’s Jon Tabin:
Within moments of the announcement of the exit polls, some of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s critics were claiming his likely win in today’s Knesset election was the result of a crude, racist appeal to voters. The justification for this charge was a speech made by Netanyahu and released only on social media because of restrictions on campaign appeals in the media, telling the country that left-wing groups funded by foreign money were busing Arab voters to the polls in order to elect a left-wing government led by his Zionist Union rival Isaac Herzog. Netanyahu’s opponents interpreted this as an appeal to racism. The statement was unfortunate because it made it seem as if the prime minister viewed Arab voters as somehow illegitimate. But the voters likely saw it in a different light. The prospect of a left-wing government that depended on the Joint Arab List was always unlikely. But a critical mass of voters viewed the prospect with alarm not because they’re racists but because a government that relied on the votes of anti-Zionists that favor Israel’s dissolution was something they considered a danger to the future of their country…Though Western journalists mocked Netanyahu’s comments about wanting to prevent a “Hamasistan” in the West Bank, the voters in Israel largely agreed. That doesn’t make them racist or extreme. It means they are, like most Americans, realists. They may not like Netanyahu but today’s results demonstrates that there is little support for a government that would make the sort of concessions to the Palestinians that President Obama would like. They rightly believe that even if Israel did make more concessions it would only lead to more violence, not peace. Israel’s foreign critics and friends need to understand that in the end, it was those convictions have, for all intents and purposes, re-elected Netanyahu.
Meanwhile, back at the White House:
Comma, punches wall MT @markknoller: On Israeli election, @PressSec says Obama confident he can work closely w whomever Israeli ppl choose
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) March 17, 2015
The good news — through a myopic, parochial American lens, at least — is that Obama’s electoral losing streak continues. The bad news is that he seems to take political drubbings as provocations to double down, not course correct. Tehran’s next set of demands should be epic.
David does not like it when real grass grows up through his astroturf.
Another self-hating Jewish communist Red Diaper Baby
Oh, the America and democracy haters just cannot handle it when good triumphs over evil and their crime.
advice to all pub candidates....BE BIBI!
Sarah tried.
Eat a bag of dicks Axelrod...
Dave the professional liar and smear artist only approves when he and his boss Barry are doing the demagoguery.
Call out the WAAAmbulance for Axlerod.
And, he’s better get accustomed to losing.
hehe
Axie should know about demagoguery.
I bet the last minute Herzog - Livni bumbling about sharing PM job hurt plenty.
Well said, and cheaters really hate to lose.
“Another self-hating Jewish communist Red Diaper Baby”
Yes, and he needed changing some time ago.
Axlenut has his panties in a knot. Awww too bad!
I am so confused. LW democrats are against Israel, very Anti-semitic and just plain don’t like the Jews. Meanwhile Jewish Americans for the most part vote democrat, like they can’t see the anti-semitism of left leaning democrats. How does this work?
Axlerod, go buy some rope and find a tall tree.
Perhaps analogous to Blacks being 'Rats, the party of the KKK, Byrd, Jim Crow, LBJ's black plantation, and so on.
F U D A !!!
David, don’t you get it, ridicule doesn’t work anymore. It backfired with Bibi. In fact the Israelis saw through your Alinksy tactics and surprised everyone by reelecting Bibi. You even had the Israeli media in your pocket, and you still lost. Ready for 2016 David? Tell Obama and Valerie we are! We shall fight your communist tyranny until you are destroyed!
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